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THE TRACKS
Milena Marković
Directed by Slobodan Unkovski
Opening night: 25 November 2002
Running time approx: 1h 30’
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 Cast and crew |
| About the author |
| About the director |
| Reviews |
| The Tracks on festivals |
| Awards |
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Cast:
HERO: Goran Šušljik
UGLY: Nebojša Glogovac
BUTTONHOLE: Jelena Djokić
MORON: Boris Milivojević
TWO ANGLERS, TWO LOCALS, TWO GREASIES: Marinko Madžgalj, Nebojša Milovanović
JOKER: Nikola Djuričko
Set & Costumes: Angelina Atlagić
Music Selection: Nebojša Ignjatović
Choreography: Maja Milanović
Dramaturge: Marina Milivojević Madjarev
Assistant director: Ksenija Krnajski
Assistant to costume designer: Vlada Dekić
Company manager: Sladjana Tatar
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Milena Marković was born on the April 9th 1974 in Belgrade. She graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Department of Dramaturgy in 1998. At a competition for drama from the former Yugoslavia, organized by the Theater m.b.H. from Vienna, she won a special award for Pavilions. Pavilions is the first of the author’s work that was staged. New piece Tracks was written during summer residency for young writers and directors at the Royal Court Theatre in London in summer of 2002.
Milena Markovic published two books of poetry Pas koji je pojo sunce (Dog Who Ate Sun) (already had three editions), Istina ima teranje (The Truth Has a Copulation). In November of 2002, she participated in poetry reading in the Royal Dramatic Theater, Stockholm. Her poetry is going to be published in Swedish soon.
THEATROGRAPHY
- 26th April, 2001 - Paviljoni (a Serbian version, first performance), Jugoslovensko dramsko pozoriste, Belgrade, directed by Alisa Stojanovic´
- June 2001 - Paviljoni, Narodni teater, Skopje, directed by Srdjan Janic´ijevic´
- June 2002 - Paviljoni, Drama, Ljubljana, directed by Jaka Ivanc
- 25th November 2002 - Sine (Tracks), Jugoslovensko dramsko pozoriste, Belgrade, directed by Slobodan Unkovski
- October 2002 - Pavilions, Theter m.b.H., Vienna, Austria, directed by Zijah Sokolović
- May 2003 - Tracks, Teater Nowy, Poznan, Poland, directed by Rafal Sabare
- Summer 2003 - BELI, BELI SVET (White, White World), Festival BELEF, directed by Rahim Burhan
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ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Slobodan Unkovski, professor of Theatre Direction at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje, has directed performances with great success across the former Yugoslavia, as well as in Trieste (Italy), Moscow (Russia), Cambridge (USA), Antwerp (Belgium) and elsewhere.
He made his directing debut at the Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište (Yugoslav Drama Theatre) in 1982 with the play The Croatian Faust by Slobodan Schneider, a play that the theatre put on the following year at the Theatre of Nations Festival in Nancy (France). His next great success at the JDP was directing The Theatre of Illusions by Pierre Corneille in 1991, which had international success in Cividale (Italy) and Milheim (Germany). Powder Keg was his third direction at the JDP. The collaboration continued and he has directed the Tracks by Milena Marković and Chekhov’s Seagull.
He has won many awards and his productions took part at different festivals: MESS (Sarajevo), Sterijino pozorje (Novi Sad), BITEF (Belgrade), Paris, Nancy, London, Caracas, Milheim, Hamburg, Cividale, Copenhagen and elsewhere.
He taught acting and directing at post-graduate courses at the Brooklyn College (New York, USA) and Harvard (Cambridge, Boston, USA).
He lives and works in Skopje.
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REVIEWS:
…It is not that eleven raw extracts from life in the play TRACKS are clear copies, but rather it is that the eleven primal scenes are eleven memories of childhood, of teenage, of post adolescent time, partly based on memorised facts, and partly on fantasy, which is forming them afterwards. Those pictures show that social factor provokes unconscious and subconscious. They give material for exiting presentation on the scene, both personal emotional wounds and collective drama of several young men and a girl, in which physiological stifles emotional… Play of Milena Markovic TRACKS is transposed into performance that is probably going to be a cult event for young audience, though the older could be provoked to ask themselves what they did in the past and what they didn’t do to make our world better then it is.
Vladimir Stamenković, NIN
…The simplicity of the plot is what deceives most, as well as the ingenuous acting, the performers of which, in spite of the precisely defined origin, are rather a part of a nightmare then of the real world… Unkovski plays with drama situations imaginatively, using simple means and there on the stage entwines different story lines.
Aleksandar Milosavljević, Večernje novosti
…Trying to color, to enrich, to develop and make more playful, the children of war in the performance of Unkovski sing songs, speak languages and with different accents of all parts of ex-Yu! The die is cast; the play of words is on the edge of the knife, up to the point of cursing and screaming, exposed to love and philanthropy. Sex is violence, and after, it is lust for other side of the river, for the sun, for the little house, little woman, and little happiness. It is about children before the war, children in the war, and handicapped after the war…
Muharem Pervić, Politika
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FESTIVALS:
- The 8th Yugoslav Theatre Festival, Užice, Serbia and Montenegro, November 2003
- Festival "Days of Zoran Radmilović" Zaječar, November 2003
- Theatrical Biennale of New Drama from Europe, Wiesbaden, Germany, June 2004
- Budva City Theatre, Budva, Serbia and Montenegro, August 2003
- Opening theatre season in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2004
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AWARDS:
Special award ARDALION on the VIII Yugoslav Theatre Festival, Užice, Serbia and Montenegro
Boris Milivojević, as actor won the prize "Zoranov brk" for the role Debil on the XII Days of Zoran Radmilović, Zaječar, Serbia and Montenegro
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